Photo taken by Daniel Tink
Obviously, he thought it appropriate to use local resources because he went to Guntons in Costessey for their superb terracotta, and with that as the decorative medium he built his highly fashionable new offices in London Street. Some of that building is still evident in the premises now occupied by Jarrolds department store.
The Haymarket Chambers and the offices of the Norfolk Daily Standard would all be completed as the nineteenth century passed into the early twentieth.
In his private life, George had been a married man since 1891. There’s evidence to suggest that he was a driven man, anxious to see off competitors, and not without a temper. Some anecdotes claim that, despite this, he was a family-oriented man and good company. However, he kept his private
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life just that, and little is known of this, his first, marriage. Similarly, there is little detailed evidence of the relationship with his brother. There were, however, reasons to believe that the two were not in total agreement.
It was also during this period that Skipper completed arguably his most famous, and probably his ‘signature’, piece. The Royal Arcade in Norwich was unique. It oozed style. The press loved it, saying that it was as if something from ‘the Arabian Nights had been dropped into the heart of the city’.
On a more practical level, the Arcade, with its bay windowed shops, brought to Norwich something of London’s Burlington Arcade.
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